AP Lit Comedy Terms
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clhrunner28 on February 2, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ingenue | a romantic female lead |
| Rogue | a mischief maker |
| Clown | professional fool |
| Braggart | egotistical character |
| Dowager | older women of wealth whose shallowness of mind makes her blind to the realities of life |
| Dunce | the poor fool who blunders along because of lack of wit (innocent) |
| Villain | the stock antagonist |
| Parasite | a leech or flatterer who gains at the expense of others |
| Pendant | a pseudo-intellectual whose knowledge is strictly bookish and never practical |
| Fop | an unaffected dandy, overdone in manners |
| Shrew | a vixenish women who is difficult to tame |
| Eccentric | a character amusing for his peculiar idiosyncracies |
| High Comedy | witty and smart |
| The Comedy of Manners | laughs at follies of man |
| The Satire | use of previously seen or known material, made fun of it |
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